Higgs boson - Wikipedia
In the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is a massive scalar boson whose mass must be found experimentally. Its mass has been determined to be 125.35 ± 0.15 GeV/c2 by CMS (2022) [36] and 125.11 ± 0.11 GeV/c2 by ATLAS (2023). It is the only particle that remains massive even at very high energies.
Peter Higgs - Wikipedia
Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE HonFInstP (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, [7] [8] and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. [9] [10]
The Higgs boson - CERN
Stars, planets and life could only emerge because particles gained their mass from a fundamental field associated with the Higgs boson. The existence of this mass-giving field was confirmed in 2012, when the Higgs boson particle was discovered at CERN.
Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained - Space.com
Apr 10, 2024 · What is the Higgs boson? The Higgs boson has a mass of 125 billion electron volts — meaning it is 130 times more massive than a proton , according to CERN. It is also chargeless with zero spin...
Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the 'God particle ...
Apr 9, 2024 · LONDON — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the...
What's so special about the Higgs boson? - CERN
The Higgs boson is that particle, and its discovery in 2012 confirmed the BEH mechanism and the Higgs field, allowing researchers to probe ever further in their understanding of matter.
Peter Higgs obituary: physicist who predicted boson that ...
Apr 12, 2024 · During a few weeks in the summer of 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, wrote two short papers outlining his ideas for a mechanism that could give mass...
The Higgs boson turns ten - Nature
Jul 4, 2022 · The discovery of the Higgs boson, ten years ago, was a milestone that opened the door to the study of a new sector of fundamental physical interactions. We review the role of the Higgs field in...
What exactly is the Higgs boson? Have physicists proved that ...
Oct 21, 1999 · As a consequence of wave-particle duality, all quantum fields have a fundamental particle associated with them. The particle associated with the Higgs field is called the Higgs boson.
Peter Higgs: science mourns giant of particle physics - Nature
Apr 10, 2024 · Few scientists have come into as much fame in recent years as British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, the namesake of the boson that was discovered in 2012, who died on 8 April, aged 94.